Encouragement

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”  Oprah Winfrey

“The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.”  C.C. Scott

“When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead keep your head up high and gaze into heaven for that is where your broken heart has been sent to heal.”  Author Unknown

“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.”  Sophocles

“Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.”  Les Brown

“It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis.” Margaret Bonnano

“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.” Mohandas Gandhi

“If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.” St. Clement of Alexandra

“The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.”
  Elbert Hubbard

“May you wake to the day when life feels worth living, when joy comes back, hope shows up, love returns.” – Unknown

“The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.”  Albert Einstein

“Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”  Helen Keller

“Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.” — Martin Luther

“If you see a friend without a smile; give him one of yours.”  Unknown

“Lower your expectations of earth. This isn’t heaven, so don’t expect it to be.”  Max Lucado

“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
” Unknown

“When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
  Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in every day.”  Author Unknown

“Once you choose hope, anything’s possible”  Christopher Reeve

“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.” — Albert Camus

“You won’t realize the distance you’ve walked until you take a look around and realize how far you’ve been.”  Unknown

“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”  Anne Frank

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”  Plato

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”  Maria Robinson

“Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.”  Albert Smith

“It’s a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.”  Danny Boyle

“When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.”  Helen Keller

“In all things it is better to hope than to despair.”  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.”  Princess Diana

“By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.”  Edwin Elliot

“If I can laugh, I can live.”  Christopher Reeve

“Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”  Charles Dickens

“Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers.  And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.”  Bill Cosby

“We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”  Frederick Keonig

“In the mist of Difficulty lies Opportunity.”  Oprah Winfrey

“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”  Malcolm S. Forbes

“Once I knew only darkness and stillness. My life was without past or future. But a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness and my heart leaped to the rapture of living. – Hope”  Helen Keller

“Just remember – when you think all is lost, the future remains.”  Robert H. Goddard

“Have you hugged yourself today?”  Anonymous

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
  Eleanor Roosevelt

“There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope!” – Bern Williams

Dum spiro, spero, “While I breathe, I hope.”  Latin Proverb

“The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”  Allan K. Chalmers

“Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!”  Bob Marley

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.”  Helen Keller

“Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.”  George Iles

“Hope is knowing that people, like kites, are made to be lifted up.”  Author Unknown

“Breathe in the life that surrounds you. Let it fill your soul with light and hope.” — Carol Schelling

“Damaged people are dangerous.  They know they can survive.”  Josephine Hart

“Don’t give up. Don’t lose hope. Don’t sell out. ”  Christopher Reeve

“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”  Steven Kloves

“People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what’s bitter and move on.”  Bill Cosby

“Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in every day.”  Author Unknown

“May the laughter that you find in your tomorrow wipe away the pain you find in your yesterdays.”  Unknown

“So often time it happens, we all live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key.”  The Eagles

“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.”  Samuel Johnson

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
”  Martin Luther King, Jr.

“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”  Albert Camus

“When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead keep your head up high and gaze into heaven for that is where your broken heart has been sent to heal.” Author Unknown

“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
”  Oscar Wilde

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”  Helen Keller

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”  Rabindranath Tagore

“Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.”  Maori Proverb

“Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.”  Ralph Blum

“Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.”  John Maxwell

“Some days there won’t be a song in your heart.  Sing anyway.”  Emory Austin

“When the world says, “Give up,”
Hope whispers, ‘Try it one more time.”  Unknown

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
”  Albert Einstein

“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.”  Jean de La Fontaine

“A laugh at another person’s expense really isn’t funny, especially to the person who just paid the price for it.”  Unknown

“Unjust criticism is usually a disguised compliment. It often means that you have aroused jealousy and envy. Remember that no one ever kicks a dead dog.”  Dale Carnegie

“Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them… and they flew.”  Guillaume Apollinaire

“Build up as many people as you can. Do it unselfishly. Do it because you like them… Build people up and love them genuinely. Do them good and their self esteem and affection will flow back toward you.”  Norman Vincent Peale

“The way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement.”  Charles Schwab

“Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.”  George M. Adams

“Likewise the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark.”  James 3:5

“Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.”  Dr. Willis R. Whitney

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”  Mother Theresa

“All the adversity I’ve had in my life, has strengthened me. You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.”
Walt Disney

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”  Vince Lombardi

“I make the most of all that comes, And the least of all that goes.”  Sara Teasdale

“Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson